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Published in A&A (Submitted), 2026
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Recommended citation: S. Zhang, H. Hildebrandt, Z. Yan, T. Tröster, A. Aravinthan, M. Asgari, D.J. Bartlett, M. Bilicki, D. Elsässer, C. Heymans, B. Joachimi, L. Moscardini, D. Neumann, A. Paopiamsap, R. Reischke, and B. Stölzner (2026). "KiDS-Legacy: WIMP dark matter constraints from the cross-correlation of weak lensing and Fermi-LAT gamma rays." arXiv:2601.11223.
Published in MNRAS (Submitted), 2026
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Recommended citation: A. Martín, T. Yasin, D.J. Bartlett, H. Desmond and P.G. Ferreira (2026). "Symbolically regressing dark matter halo profiles using weak lensing." arXiv:2601.05203.
Published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2025
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Recommended citation: D.J. Bartlett, H. Desmond, P.G. Ferreira and G. Kronberger (2026). "Introduction to Symbolic Regression in the Physical Sciences." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 384(2317):20240600, 03 2026. ISSN 1364-503X.
Published in Physical Review D (Submitted), 2025
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Recommended citation: A. Martín, C. Skordis, D.J. Bartlett, H. Desmond, P.G. Ferreira and T. Yasin (2025). "The Cosmological Dipole in Tilted Anisotropic Universes." arXiv:2512.03867.
Published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2025
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Recommended citation: A. Martín, T. Yasin, D.J. Bartlett, H. Desmond and P.G. Ferreira (2026). "Constraining dark matter halo profiles with symbolic regression." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 384(2317):20250090, 04 2026b. ISSN 1364-503X.
Published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2025
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Recommended citation: S. AbdusSalam, S. Abel, D.J. Bartlett, and M. Crispim Romao (2026). "Symbolic Regression and Differentiable Fits in Beyond the Standard Model Physics." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 384(2317):20240593, 04 2026..
Published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2025
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Recommended citation: D.J. Bartlett, and S. Pandey (2026). "Symbolic Emulators for Cosmology: Accelerating Cosmological Analyses Without Sacrificing Precision." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 384(2317):20240585, 04 2026. ISSN 1364-503X.
Published in A&A, 2025
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Recommended citation: L. Kammerer, D.J. Bartlett, G. Kronberger, H. Desmond and P.G. Ferreira (2025). "syren-baryon: Analytic emulators for the impact of baryons on the matter power spectrum." A&A, 701, A284 .
Published in A&A, 2025
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Recommended citation: C. Sui, D.J. Bartlett, S. Pandey, H. Desmond, P.G. Ferreira and B.D. Wandelt (2025). "syren-new: Precise formulae for the linear and nonlinear matter power spectra with massive neutrinos and dynamical dark energy." A&A, 698, A1.
Published in MNRAS (Submitted), 2025
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Recommended citation: R. Stiskalek, H. Desmond, J. Devriendt, A. Slyz, G. Lavaux, M.J. Hudson, D.J. Bartlett, and H.M. Courtois. (2025). "The Velocity Field Olympics: Assessing velocity field reconstructions with direct distance tracers." arXiv:2502.00121.
Published in A&A, 2025
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Recommended citation: D.J. Bartlett, M. Chiarenza, L. Doeser and F. Leclercq (2025). "COmoving Computer Acceleration (COCA): N-body simulations in an emulated frame of reference." A&A, 694, A287.
Published in ApJL, 2024
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Recommended citation: D.J. Bartlett, M. Ho and B.D. Wandelt (2024). "Bye-bye, Local-in-matter-density Bias: The Statistics of the Halo Field Are Poorly Determined by the Local Mass Density." ApJL 977 L44.
Published in Phys. Rev. D, 2024
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Recommended citation: S. Pandey, C. Modi, B.D. Wandelt, D.J. Bartlett, A.E. Bayer, G.L. Bryan, M. Ho, G. Lavaux, T.L. Makinen and F. Villaescusa-Navarro (2024). "CHARM: Creating Halos with Auto-Regressive Multi-stage networks." Phys. Rev. D 112, 103503.
Published in Phys. Rev. D, 110(8):083528, 2024
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Recommended citation: W.J. Wolf, C. García-García, D.J. Bartlett and P.G. Ferreira (2024). "Scant evidence for thawing quintessence." Phys. Rev. D, 110(8):083528.
Published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2024
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Recommended citation: A. Constantin, D.J. Bartlett, H. Desmond and P.G. Ferreira (2026). "Statistical Patterns in the Equations of Physics and the Emergence of a Meta-Law of Nature." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 384(2317):20250091, 04 2026. ISSN 1364-503X.
Published in A&A, 2024
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Recommended citation: D.J. Bartlett, L. Kammerer, G. Kronberger, H. Desmond, P.G. Ferreira, B.D. Wandelt, B. Burlacu, D. Alonso and M. Zennaro (2023). "A precise symbolic emulator of the linear matter power spectrum." A&A 686:A209.
Published in A&A, 2024
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Recommended citation: D.J. Bartlett, B.D. Wandelt, M. Zennaro, P.G. Ferreira and H. Desmond (2024). "syren-halofit: A fast, interpretable, high-precision formula for the $\Lambda$CDM nonlinear matter power spectrum." A&A 686:A150.
Published in Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN) Conference 2024, 2024
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Recommended citation: G. Kronberger, Fabricio Olivetti de Franca, H. Desmond, D. J. Bartlett, and L. Kammerer (2024). "The Inefficiency of Genetic Programming for Symbolic Regression." arXiv:2404.17292.
Published in Open Journal of Astrophysics, 2024
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Recommended citation: M. Ho, D.J. Bartlett et al. (2024). "ltu-ili: An All-in-One Framework for Implicit Inference in Astrophysics and Cosmology." The Open Journal of Astrophysics, 7, 7 2024.
Published in Open Journal of Astrophysics, 2023
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Recommended citation: D.J. Bartlett and H. Desmond (2023). "Marginalised Normal Regression: Unbiased curve fitting in the presence of x-errors." The Open Journal of Astrophysics, 6, 11 2023..
Published in Physical Review D, 2023
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Recommended citation: Tomas Sousa, D.J. Bartlett, H. Desmond and P.G. Ferreira (2024). "Optimal inflationary potentials." Phys. Rev. D 109, 083524.
Published in Physical Review D, 2023
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Recommended citation: A. Paopiamsap, D. Alonso, D.J. Bartlett and M. Bilicki (2023). "Constraints on dark matter and astrophysics from tomographic $\gamma$-ray cross-correlations." Phys. Rev. D 109, 103517.
Published in The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2023 Workshop on Symbolic Regression, 2023
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Recommended citation: D.J. Bartlett, H. Desmond and P.G. Ferreira (2023). "Priors for symbolic regression." In Proceedings of the Companion Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2402–2411.
Published in Universe 2023, 9, 340, 2023
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Recommended citation: V. Vardanyan and D. J. Bartlett (2023). "Modeling and testing screening mechanisms in the laboratory and in space." Universe 2023, 9, 340.
Published in IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation 28, 950, 2023
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Recommended citation: D.J. Bartlett, H. Desmond and P.G. Ferreira (2023). "Exhaustive Symbolic Regression." In IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation 28, 950.
Published in Physical Review D, 2023
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Recommended citation: A. Kostic, D.J. Bartlett and H. Desmond (2023). "No evidence for p- or d-wave dark matter annihilation from local large-scale structure." Phys. Rev. D, 113:063539.
Published in MNRAS 521(2):1817-1831, 2023
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Recommended citation: H. Desmond, D.J. Bartlett and P.G. Ferreira (2023). "On the functional form of the radial acceleration relation." MNRAS 521(2):1817-1831.
Published in Phys. Rev. D, 106(10)110352, 2022
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Recommended citation: D.J. Bartlett, A. Kostic, H. Desmond, J. Jasche and G. Lavaux (2022). "Constraints on dark matter annihilation and decay from the large-scale structure of the nearby Universe." Phys. Rev. D, 106(10)110352.
Published in MNRAS, 514(3):4026–4045, 2022
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Recommended citation: R. Stiskalek, D.J. Bartlett, H. Desmond, and D. Anbajagane (2022). "The scatter in the galaxy–halo connection: a machine learning analysis." MNRAS, 514(3):4026–4045.
Published in Phys. Rev. D, 105(8):083515, 2022
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Recommended citation: D.J. Bartlett, W.J. Handley and A.N. Lasenby (2022). "Improved cosmological fits with quantized primordial power spectra." Phys. Rev. D, 105(8):083515.
Published in Phys. Rev. D, 105(8):083514, 2022
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Recommended citation: A.N. Lasenby, W.J. Handley, D.J. Bartlett, and C.S. Negreanu (2022). "Perturbations and the future conformal boundary." Phys. Rev. D, 105(8):083514.
Published in Phys. Rev. D, 104(10):10351, 2021
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Recommended citation: D.J. Bartlett, H. Desmond, P.G. Ferreira and J. Jasche (2021). "Constraints on quantum gravity and the photon mass from gamma ray bursts." Phys. Rev. D, 104(10):10351.
Published in Phys. Rev. D, 104(8):084025, 2021
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Recommended citation: D.J. Bartlett, D. Bergsdal, H. Desmond, P.G. Ferreira and J. Jasche (2021). "Constraints on equivalence principle violation from gamma ray bursts." Phys. Rev. D, 104(8):084025.
Published in Phys. Rev. D, 103(12):123502, 2021
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Recommended citation: D.J. Bartlett, H. Desmond and P.G. Ferreira (2021). "Calibrating galaxy formation effects in galactic tests of fundamental physics." Phys. Rev. D, 103(12):123502.
Published in Phys. Rev. D, 103(2):023523, 2021
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Recommended citation: D.J. Bartlett, H. Desmond and P.G. Ferreira (2021). "Constraints on Galileons from the positions of supermassive black holes" Phys. Rev. D, 103(2):023523.
Published in MNRAS, 500(4):4639–4657, 2020
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Recommended citation: D.J. Bartlett, H. Desmond, J. Devriendt, P.G. Ferreira and A. Slyz. "Spatially offset black holes in the Horizon-AGN simulation and comparison to observations." MNRAS, 500(4):4639–4657.
